Overview

RPostgreSQL provides an interface between
GNU R and the
PostgreSQL database.
RPostgreSQL uses the standard
DBI
interface which is also used by the similar packages ROracle, RMySQL and RSQLite.
Highlights include:

Implemented all the DBI features

Added support for transaction management

Added type mapping for dates & timestamps

RPostgreSQL was initially written by Sameer Kumar Prayaga during the summer
of 2008 as part of the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. Dirk Eddelbuettel
had suggested the topic, and acted as mentor and
release coordinator.

Current maintainer team

RPostgreSQL was being maintained and extended by Joe Conway, Dirk
Eddelbuettel, Tomoaki Nishiyama and Neil Tiffin.
Since release 0.2-0, Tomoaki Nishiyama is the lead maintainer.